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THE MOATED GRANGE.

CHAPTER XX:

By KATHARINE TYNAN.

Author of "A Mad Marriago," The House

of Doom," "Denys the Dreamer."

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

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Mrs. Cronch straightened her self from a corner where she had been snilling.

"Tain't in the house," she said. every like 'tis a rát in the mout all

Mrs. Cronch opened the door at her knock, and looked at her with a worshipping expression that deemed the poor plain face.

"Sure your dog for you could die

blowed up an' horrid. That there Dash he avent, in with a splash yesterday, and the ice gave "with him. Lucky

drown. ho didn't

over.

mahogany doar that shut off the corridor, aho was surprised and ploased to find the key in the lock.

The discovery decided her upon something she had been about to discuss with Mrs. Crouch. Had they not better change their rooms to the sunny side of the house? The day they had visited the wingi she had noticed that, despite the winter day and the shuttered windows, the rooms. amelt dry and warm. They could not continuo sleeping over the moat, now the horrld smell had arisen. She | wondered what Mrs. Cronch would

think of the idch?,

Mrs. Cronch thought very well of it. They would be much better in the sunny rooms. They had often had a fire there. The rooms had been kept regularly aired. Me Casten had never been as well as when he slept in that wing.

"Mr. Carden?"

"The old gentleman we had here: after Sir Hilary went, my first tenant. Ile died when I were in hospital

With no truer heart than k" The lines came to Delia de Burgh's mind as she met that gaze. He'll have Tet out the rat maybe."" "Oh! I didn't know about Dash," It was strange and pathelle that a little humanity, on her part should Mrs, de Burgh was startled. I

with my operation. have evoked such a feeling.

"No, Cronch had not come back. should have been frightened for the

Crouch had charge of him before, dog."

Pour Had

madam thought he had?"

"No use tellin' when 'twas allan he were and to come. The formal "madam" seemed to go

I were doin' the beds when old gentleman, he were childish. oddly with the adoration in the heard the splash. Td have gone led quarrelled with all belongin the half-blind eyes.

Again Mrs. de Burgh was afraid. in myself afler him rather than him. Cantankerous he wore, 1 her often wondered myself how Cronch It did not matter so much now when MissBeata,should fret for

have him here the "aun shone on the white landslog. Not that what give under bore with him. Praps we'd no Sir. Hilary's WILS cape and everything was bright. him would hold me! But before I right He didn't seein' But to-night Anthony Napier would sould holler he was out.

in the world-she were a niece- be gone. There would be just now as it weren't dry land, the servants, but the only one he had three women in the house against creature."

went off with a gentleman she'd the ghosts and terrors. Captain

married to Africa. They paid Napier had been so splendidly

Cranch well to take him in an look after him. He'd run through his masculine, se reassuring. He had laughed at the ice-cold room as at

money. Leastways, there wasn't much of it, Crunch, he had a blow- everything else.

out in London after the old gentle. I raan died. Said he couldn't bear the place. I were alone six weeks after I came

"If we had that carpet up." be ksul said, locking down at the floor, we should find some opening over wonder when the the water. I moat was cleaned out, by the way, I believe the Egertons had it dredged regularly. It smells rather foul. I wonder if you ought not to Plove out of these ronnis. sunny rooms are all on the other side of the house."

The

It had been easy to serept sound common wense by daylight when Anthony Napier was there, but the

"I'm afraid he's going blind!" said Mrs. de Burgh, sitting down an her bed,

"I must consult some- one about him. It would have been terrible if he had not been able to save himself. We have grown so fond of Dash,

She was

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She, stooped to the oven and in- spected the meal-pic. When, she lifted a red face she spoke in a matter-of-fact tone..

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"Yus. Inteed." she said, smooth-

Home that time. ing the beautiful forehead. "A nice state we should have been in Craneh came back then a proper anything had happened to you." bjer. He hasn't wanted to go addressing Dash. "Lagain till now the temptation's took. don't know how we are going to him again. "Tis a weary_world."{

"" pray that won't be for lang," part with you when we leave this."" Mrs. Cranch, with sudden fervour. And then, as though she

she

"Yet added. repented wouldn' keep you. "Tis too lonely for the likes of you. All very well for Crench that has It was true that a certain foul his templations, an' me, that's done with the world. I don't suppose as smell had been coming into house. The emanations from the Sir Hilary will ever come back. stagnant water had been hanging Crunch, he kept his templations about, making them sack and under, livin' here, but that's gone heavy, till Anthony Napier had Somewhere he gits it." I don't come in like the west wim to blow know that we mightn't as well go the cobwebs away.

And that defunt of it now Cronch has broke lightful boy, Derek Jekyll, and the loose again, We might as well go the leilgers again... If back to Kirke boys, why, when the winter had relaxed its grip and these you comes to think on it, the place friendly neighbours could comes tou lonely for a man like. Cronch

night, when they, were just three women and a dog, was quite an- other matter,

the

"I never were ane to let the grass grow under my feet," she said. "I've the sheets and pillow-cases in the hot-air cupboard. You'll sleep in her Ladyship's Wing to-night; and wake to the sun in the mornin'. nasty dark aspec' I calls the

front of this house,

" come and make the beds with you," said Mrs. de Burgh. "I love bed-making,"

"You're sure it's no trouble?" said Mrs. Cronch, and protested no more.

In the act of turning back the

Room, which was to be Beata's,

It was a friendly question asked Mr. de Burgh asked a question.

and go, the Monted Grange would that loves his newspaper an' his sheels on the bed in her Ladyship's dub. All very well for the likes be quite a different place.

It was disquieting that Croncho' me... Lain't no good to anyone, again. Whereas Crotch says. I knew I wasn't had disappeared had he gone to after he had crossed his equal; but Nellie, she never saw the bridge and entered the court- much wrong with her ma."

She wiped a tear from the blind yard? As Mrs. de Burgh asked the question mentally she rememe as she had done before when she Lalked of Nellie. It was some- bered with something of fear the suddenness with which the scare-thing Mrs. de Burgh could not bear.

"Oh, I'm sorry," she said, softly, about Nellie and Cronch and his temptations. Perhaps the tempta- ions wouldn't have been so bad if he'd had Nellie"

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crow figure had sprung upon the snow. Was it Cronch? Despite fis deterioration, it was not like Cronch to appear in that tatter demalion garb Was she seeing

She had been moved to comfort things? Had it been a delusion? the poor woman, but she was start Some cobweb of the mind or some-led by the sudden light on Mrs. thing, nothing, that took shape be-Crench's poor plain. face. fore eves wearied and dazzled with

"God bless you, madam," she the glare of the sun on the snowid, fervently, "for your kind She went upstairs to take off her words. If Nellie had lived Cronch outdoor, things, and suddenly she was conscious of the heavy smell might ha' been a better man. I won't say he's been a good 'usbin in the room. There was Home- to me, for that he hasn't--not that thing sickening and loathsome I deserved M. But he was fair about it. The ice on the mout had broken up and liberated the foul- ress which had been kept in click by the frost.

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took up with Nellie. She weren't like us-pretty sa' ladylike she were-and Cronch was proud of he, But there! I didn't have any right to the likes o' Nellie, and I've nothink to complain of She didn't ought to ha' been my child. only hope she'll win forgiveness for us where she is."

How did it come that she had not noticed it before? It must have become very much worse. She could leafe the horrid smell. It seemed to cling to her lips, the smell, the taste of rottenness. It

Again the tears came from. the must have been poisoning them blind eye and ran down her cheek. before it had become so apparent

"When the weather is better 1 that it could no longer be ignored.

She closed up her window which going to ask a great friend of opened on the moat, and did the mine who is a famous eye-doctor samp in Beal's room, opening the to come down here to see me." Mrs. doors, into the corridor, and the de Burgh said. "He might be able to do something for you, and for corridor windows which looked on the courtyard, so as to get a daught pour Dash. I don't think he'd re- through. She said to herself that use to help Dash.'

He'll do nothink to help me." they might change their roonis. If they had known of her Lady said Mrs. Cronch, and turned away ship's roonis the other side of the her head. "What growed on my -house they would have chosen them, was a judgment. Maybe in They were beautiful rooms, and consideration of that the Lord they got all the winter sun. Why would forgive me my sins and save

poor Cronch." had they gone on living in. rooms

"Oh, my dear soul," began Mrs" with a cold eastern aspect while those other rooms were available de Burgh, but got no further, be and full of sun? It was no wonder cause Mrs. Cranch remembered that

oul of the certain intimacy which had grown up between her and Mrs, Cronch. As she had express- i el it, Mrs. Croneh was a great com. fort to her.

"How did you come to Cronch?" she asked.

marry

"We was servants to 'the, same lady," said Mrs. Cronch, stooping to pat the silken surface of the sheet. "She was very good. She left me two hundred pounds."

Ah Mrs. de Burgh thought she understood. So that was why Cranch had married Mrs. Cronch. "What a splendid windfall," she said. "Weren't you delighted?""

"It weren't a windfall," said Mrs. Cronch, gloomily. "Twerd promised. Cronch, he used to say I'd never get it, that Mrs. "Ansell would leave all to charities. There were no luck in it when I cid, Crench's temptations all come back, an there were the patents He runned through it fast.. She'd left me some furniture, too, an' we'd set up furnished lodgin's for gentle-

men, and Mr. Carden he'd come. We was all comfortable for a while, and then Cronch broke out. There was that there shark that took his money for nothink. Many the place we was out of after that. Then there was 'Nellie, and he tried, he really did try for Neillie's sake. But she couldn't stay-

She choked a 'little before going" on: When she spoke again it was with a naive pride.

"Maybe you'd have heard tell of Mrs. Ansell. She died as we done her hair."

She looked down at her hands icerly as she spoke.

"Lovely hair she had for an old lady. I often thought it took the

THURSDAY,

JANUARY 19. 1928.

SHARE PRICES.

TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS.

The following is the list of local share quotations issued to-day:

Banks.

Hongkong Bank, $1190 b. Chartered Bank; £21 b. Mercantile A. & B., £321 . P. and O. £10 p. East Asia, $72 b.

Insurances.

Canton Ins., $590 b. Union Ins., $300 b. North China, Ins., Tls. 143′′n. Yangtazo Ins., $461 b. China Underwriters, $2.40 s. Chifia Firos, $215 n. H. R. Firo Ins., $680 Shipping, Douglases, $403 m

b.

H. K.Steamboats, $26 s. H. K. Tugs, $2.30 b. Indo-Chinas, (Prof.) $30 n. Shell Trans., 88 n Union Waterboats, $17.75 . Mining. Bonguets, $2. Kailans, 62/6 m. Langkats, Tla. $183 S'hal Exploration, Fls. 2.85 Raubs, $4 h. Tronohs, 17/6 b.

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Docks,, ete. Kowloon Wharves, $129) se Whampoa Docks, $401 b. China Providents $4.30 b. Hongkews, Tls, 163 b. New Engineerings, Tis. 5 s. Shanghai Docks, Tis. 891

Cottons.

BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY.

(Continued from Page 1.)

Treaty was designed to meet - n specific danger in a specific aren and that Imposes on all the parties concerned an equal obligation, to preserve its integrity and to execute

the the decisions of Council.

It is, in this way, far more efficacious then could be any more general system of guarantees under which the obligation would be spread over a much larger number of States, each of which would be inclined, quite naturally, to regard its individual obligation as being pro-tanto reduced.

The British Government is of opinion that the Locarno Treaty, by virtue of the extent to which it is devised to meet a specific danger, and by the character and clarity of the definition, consti- tutes a secure agreement. Yet nothwithstanding the hope ex- presaed by the League' Assembly that the principles embodied in the Treaties of Locarno "will be s. put into practice as

soon да

possible by all States" in whose interests it is to contract such treaties," no further treaties on this model have been registered with the League.

In the same connexion the Langue Council also placed its offices at the disposal of all States desirous of "concluding suitable agree- n.ments likely to establish confi

Ewo Cottons, Tls. $74 Orientals, "Tis. 1.85 b. S'hai Cottons, Tls. 461 (old) b.

Lands, Hotels, etc.

6.

H. and's. Hotels, $8.25 80, H. K. Lands, $64! S'hai Lands Tis. 127 b.. Humphreys, $147 b Realties, $7.30, n. Territorials. $1 n.

Public Utilities. Tramways, $24.10 Peak Trams, fuld; $14 w. Star Ferries, $63 1. China Lights, (Conib.) $14.30 H'kong Electrics, $65 b. Macao Electricy; $64 b. Telophones 84 b.

su.

China Buses, Tls 6 n. Singapore Tractions, 11/9

Industrials.

dence and security," but none have yet accepted the offer..

Universal Sense of Security, "The British Government looks forward to the gradual growth of thin system, convinced, as they are, that the easiest way of attaining A universal sense of security is for ench State to provide itself with the necessary guarantees in that quarter where its main interests, and consequently its principal dangers, lie.

if the system is gradually ex- btended, until it includes every State which feels that its accurity is not already amply safeguarded, there will eventually be woven a network of guarantees against b. rupture of pence in every part of

the world.

Ctrina Sugars, $91 - s. Mulabous, $271 n.. Canton Icos, $22 b. Coments (Comb) $87 Ropes Old) $6 b. United Asbestos, $10.

Stores &c. Dairy Farms, $18. b. Watsons, $11.20 b Der A. Wing, $6 s. Lane Crawfords, $3.75 b. Mackintosh, $22 8. Sinceros, $77 b. Wm. Powells, $5. n.

Miscellaneous. Amusements, $24,10 Constructions, $17 s. B'que Ind. G. Bnods, 56% b. H. K. G Loan, 5% Prom.

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LETTER GOLF SOLUTION.

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PREPARED TO GO BACK TO PRISON.

Such local guarantees, directed to specific danger, and based on well-defined obligations, are in- finitely more satisfactory than any comprehensive or universal sys- tem, which must necessarily be drawn in vague and more general terms, and concerning which, con- sequently, modus operandi and pro- bable efficacy must remain to some extent a matter of speculation.

If the States which, owing to any doubt or suspicion, hesitate to open negotiations were mutually to agree to place themselves in the hands of the League Council, and to conduct their conversations under its auspices, the conclusion of. further agreements on the lines recommended would be greatly facilitated-British Wireless.

Ten Thousand Words.

London, Jan. 18. A. White Paper of ten thousand words has been issued containing the British Government's observa- tions on the suggested programme of work of the Security Sub-Com- mittee of the Preparatory Dis- armament Committee.

The Memorandum, which, con- firms the policy laid down by Sir Austen Chamberlain in his address to the Assembly last September, consists of a series of questions and co-ordinate special or collective agreements on arbitration security.

It also deals with the question of the systematic preparation of ma chinery to be employed by the or- guns of the League with a view to enabling members of the League to perform their obligations under the Covenant

Strength of Convenant.

In the course of a series of gen- eral remarks, the Memorandum says that the British "Government reiterates its opposition to the ap- plication of hard and fast rules re- garding the interpretation of the Articles of the Covenant and says that this is due to no desire to be. little the obligations of the Coven- Kevork Kriss Chavooshian, anant, but solely to the conviction that the great strength of the Covenant seem somehow towards the Inat British subject, who served six able to carry the weight of them months in Portsmouth jail for which it allows in dealing with future contingencies, which may be sultation. Mrs. Cronch, sniffing Mr de Burgh followed her beautiful pearls she wore about contempt of Court at his initial unparalleled in the history of the about the bedroom, agreed that downstairs after an interval. She her neck. Why, they went down examination proceedings, appear world, and therefore cannot be seen

knees. Thousands ed at Brighton Bankruptcy Court in advance. "somethink faint,"

to her was thinking about Mrs, Cronch near

A similar consideration applies and suggested a dead rat in the and her poor blind eye, and Nellie they was worth, an she was al- for his further public examina-

tion..

to, any endeavours to define the Chavooshian, an importer of meaning of the term "aggressor."- Glancing at her face as she lift. and Crouch's temptations, and Mrs. ways frightened of burglars."

Cronch's attitude of her being Iler eyes fluttered in the ed. It to the cold light, Mra. de

great sinner-an absurd strangest way as she looked at Mrs. Carpets, stated at the subsequent Reuter

public examination that his Burgh, not for the first time, had a thing,

face" of it. de Burgh.

tion was due to the default of a

they had been out of sorts.

her meat-pic was in the oven, and strength out of her: She didn't Armenian, and now a naturalisedles in the measure of discretion

She called Mrs. Cronch into con- would be burning if the oven was.

too hot.

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there was

moat.

Mrs. Crunch somewhere before.

the on

Was Woman

She hadn't been touched.".

'could'

a curious sense that she had seen Despite her unprepossessing "They thought at first I might man in London who, he alleged, The flat Tartar nose, the wide flat appearance, which had ceased to have had somethink to do with it, stele a stock of carpets and rugs ty he had suffered for his former face, the gunken eyes with their affect Mrs. de Burgh and Beata, the she said. "I were arrested; but and forged three bills of exchange.refusal did not exempt him.

Chavooshlan'' said he a kind, harmless the doctor proved her heart were He was bound by honour, he sais, spare eyebrows she had seen them creature. They had often wonder, wore out, so I were discharged, not to divulge the name of the assure them that he would go to somewhere before; but it was aed why they had thought her s0 very vague memory. After all, in

man, to whose wife he made that prison all his life. This ungrate fulness and disbelief and mistrust London alone there were thousandsely at first. Mrs. de Burgh was

Her voice rose a little, and, sud-promise, of Buch faces. Mongoltan, was it? thinking alao, with a retrospective

Chavooshian told the Omeiul were not justified at all. The past She put the baffling memory away pity and terror, of Dash's adventure denly, Mr. de Burgh remembered

and credulousness from her, and, for the first time, on the ice. It would have been so 1 row of pictures in an illustrated Receiver that he could not give of his life was a whole series of

the name of the agent who, he imprudence

and soft-headedness and being she wondered why Cronch had terrible if he had not been able paper at Glen Aesaroe.

to save himself.

So that was why Mrs. Crouch's aid, robbed him of £600. married Mrs. Cronch.. As "head of

The Reglatrar pointed out to duped by everybody. Absorbed in her thoughts, she face had seemed familar, twenty" he must have had many took the turn towards her Lady-

Chavooshlan that he was bound to (To be continued.) opportunities of marriage.

answer the question. The penal ship's Wing, and, reaching the

The Registrar adjourned the examination sine die.

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